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Last night I spent some time working on Elizabeth LEWRY my 3x great grandmother. My goal was to fill in some details on her life (from the census) and find out who her parents were.

I already knew that she married Edward WALDER in Bolney, Sussex on the 19th December 1846, and together they had my 2x great grandmother Mary Ann WALDER and at least one other child. From the marriage entry I also know her father’s name was Thomas.

Everything went surprisingly smoothly, most of the census returns were easy to locate (except the 1841 I think it was, in which they were recorded as LOWRY on Ancestry.co.uk). I still need to find out more details on the birth and baptism of their children but that wasn’t on the agenda for last night. I was going backwards, not forwards in time.

Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas LEWRY and Mary MANSBRIDGE who married in Bolney on the 8th August 1809, she was baptised in Bolney on the 10th April 1825, one of possibly seven or eight children. Thomas’ occupation is variously described over the year as either a labourer, higgler, huckster or poulterer. Thomas died in 1855 aged 68 and Mary in 1870 aged 80, both of them were buried at Bolney.

So that means I have added another set of 4x great grandparents to my family tree, and whilst I still need to do more work on this line I achieved what I set out to do and could go to bed happy (if somewhat later than I had planned).